Description

Canada holds the chair of the International Holocaust Research Alliance (formerly the International Task Force on Holocaust Remembrance) for 2013. As part of the annual meeting, which will take place in Toronto, there will be an academic conference, “Holocaust: New Scholars-New Research on the Holocaust,” which will take place on October 6-7, 2013. Beginning with an event open to the public on Sunday evening, October 6th, the conference will screen a new Israeli film, “Numbered,” dealing with Auschwitz survivors, to be followed by a panel discussion featuring Dr. Vivian Rakoff, a pioneer in the field of Holocaust-related psychiatry; Na’ama Shik, an historian from Yad Vashem; and Carson Phillips from Toronto’s Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre.

On Monday, twenty-four speakers from eleven countries will showcase and consider new Holocaust-related research in the field in six discussion panels. The conference papers will explore new sources, methodologies and approaches to key themes such as reportage, militaries, subject nationalities, cooperation and collaboration, and postwar issues. The themes will include gender; economic and religious and cultural aspects of the Holocaust; local studies that impact wider interpretations; and contributions of media and literature to an understanding of the Holocaust; and many other innovative and interdisciplinary topics.